Posts Tagged ‘History Fundaas’

  • Ice, Opium, Amitav Ghosh and some lessons in history
    This isn?t a post on cinema though I have made some tenuous connections. This is a post on history, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, global trade and some personal observations. September, 1833. As the Tuscany, that had set sail from Boston about four months ago, approached the Hooghly and made its way up into Calcutta, there was palpable excitement among the officers of...
    by Subrat at July 12th, 2008 at 02:07 am